Misplaced Priorities

Revelation 1:3 says of the book, Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.

Can you imagine the day that we all stand before God?  According to the Bible, the very first thing that we will see in Heaven, after the throne of God (Rev. 4:2), is our Risen Savior, Jesus Christ.  Revelation 5:6 says, And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain...  What will go through our minds at that moment?  Sorrow?  Pity?  Regret?  Maybe that is why Revelation 21:4 says, And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes…  What are these tears for?  They may be because for the first time, we are going to realize just how much Jesus suffered so that we could have eternal life.  Maybe, they will be because we are going to wish that we would’ve, could’ve, and should’ve, done so much more with our lives? Sadly, there are going to be many Christians with tears in their eyes on that day because they are simply going to be overwhelmed with the unfortunate reality of misplaced priorities.  How about you?  Where are your priorities right now?

Living by Faith

Romans 1:17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

I've come to believe that the Lord sometimes does not show us things because He knows that we are not ready for them. Sometimes, too much information is just as detrimental as not enough. After all, we are all in a growing process and some of us are further along in that process than others, but that’s okay. The important thing is that we are all searching and trying to understand what God has for us daily.

The Bible says that we grow from faith to faith and glory to glory. To me, that means that we grow a little bit at a time. It does not happen overnight. The Lord knows that I wish it did, but it doesn't. God knows when and how to reveal things to us as He knows that we are ready to receive them. That's why we much live lives of faith!

Taxes, Entitlements and the Truth

It is absolutely pathetic and frustrating to listen to all of the bickering in Washington these days over raising taxes and cutting spending. The Republicans want to cut spending and not raise taxes. The Democrats want to raise taxes and not cut spending. The bottom line is that we have become a people that is addicted to government money. We have convinced ourselves that it is the government's job to take care of us (e.g. Katrina, Sandy, etc.). Folks, we all know how Obama got back into office: entitlements. The American people decided that they wanted a big government that would continue to provide them with free contraception, abortion, unemployment, medicare, medicaid, education, military protection,  and the list goes on and on.

Just spent three and a half hours on a train the other day with a Spaniard and a Frenchmen. They are in absolute awe that America is running down the very road that destroyed their countries' economies. They are fleeing to countries like Peru just to hang on to what little money they have left. Americans are going to be doing the same thing if we don't wake up to reality. We cannot spend more money than we take in. Full stop. We cannot keep printing money. If America were a company, it would have already filed for bankruptcy.

The bottom line is that if we want to just keep going down the road we are going down (and apparently the majority of us do, based on the last election), taxes are going to have to go up. The best answer is to stop spending, but let's be serious, that's simply not going to happen because we have become addicted to big government.

The Queen James Bible

Well, they have finally come out with a Bible that removes all condemnation of homosexuality. I wonder if they re-translated the part that says in Revelation 22:18-19 I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book, and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book. 

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